William Hamilton Rice

Son of wealthy doctor and planter John Walter Rice (1893-1862), in 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer and lived with his parents, 2 brothers, and 15 slaves in New Market, VA. He organized a battery of artillery there and enrolled with them as their Captain on 22 April 1861. He was wounded by an artillery round to his left foot in action on the Greenbriar River, VA (now WV) on 3 October 1861 and his foot was amputated. He was probably back with his battery by 6 August 1862 (when he signed a requisition for stores), but he tendered his resignation due to his disability for field service on 19 August 1862 and it was formally accepted on 2 September. There is no later military record.

It is unlikely that Rice was with his battery in Maryland in September 1862. They were stationed on the Potomac at one of the fords near Williamsport, MD defending the Army's escape route, and not engaged. On 26 September 1862 his battery was combined with Wooding's Danville Artillery and ceased to exist.

He lived in New Market, VA and built a house there at 9329 N. Congress Street in 1877.

His presence in command on the Maryland Campaign from Johnson & Anderson.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. is gravesite is on Findagrave.

08/08/1834; New Market, VA

03/12/1909; New Market, VA; burial in Saint Matthews Cemetery, New Market, VA